Ephemeris of May 7: This happened in the world on a day like today

On May 7, 2001, Ronald Biggs, the legendary mastermind of the Glasgow train assault in 1963, turns himself in to British justice after returning from Brazil.

Other ephemeris

1870.- The Cuban patriot Domingo Goicuria is shot in Havana after being taken prisoner by the Spanish authorities when he clandestinely disembarked.

1824.- Beethoven premieres the “Ninth Symphony” in Vienna.

1915.- First World War: a German submarine sinks the American liner “Lusitania” in the Irish Sea, killing about 1,200 people. Germany and the US break diplomatic relations.

1921.- Konrad Adenauer, Mayor of Cologne, is elected President of the Prussian Council of State.

1932.- The French president, Paul Doumer, is assassinated in Paris by a Russian exile.

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1946.- Founded the company Sony, in Japan, with 20 employees.

1954.- 50,000 Vietnamese led by Ho Chim Minh seize Dien Bien Phu from the French, ending French domination in Indochina.

1973.- The newspaper “The Washington Post” wins the Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the “Watergate scandal”.

1995.- French Elections: the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac is elected fifth president of the V Republic of France against the socialist candidate Lionel Jospin.

1998.- The automobile consortiums “Daimler Benz” and “Chrysler” merge, forming the third most important group in the sector.

1999.- Pope John Paul II arrives in Romania and becomes the first Pope to travel to a country with an Orthodox majority since the schism that separated the two Churches in the year 1054.

2001.- Spain begins the urgent regularization of more than 20,000 Ecuadorian immigrants, who requested the voluntary return to their country to obtain residence and work permits.

2004.- In Chile, the new civil marriage law that allows divorce is promulgated.

2008.- Silvio Berlusconi, winner of the elections in Italy, agrees to form a government, the fourth, and presents his list of ministers.

2011.- The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, wins the referendum for the reform of justice and the regulation of the press.

2013.- The Brazilian Roberto Azevêdo is elected Director General of the WTO.

2015.- The Conservative Party wins the elections in the United Kingdom by an absolute majority and David Cameron is renewed as Prime Minister.

2016.- The Spanish journalists Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel López and Ángel Sastre, kidnapped in Aleppo (northern Syria) since July 2015, are released.

2017.- Emmanuel Macron wins the second round of the French presidential elections against the leader of the National Front, Marine Le Pen.

2018.- Putin takes possession of his fourth term as head of the Kremlin.

2019.- Ollanta Humala becomes the first former Peruvian dignitary to receive a formal accusation -20 years in prison is requested by the Prosecutor’s Office- for the Odebrecht case.

births

1711.- David Hume, English philosopher.

1812.- Robert Browning, English poet.

1833.- Johannes Brahms, German musician.

1840.- Piotr Tchaikovsky, Russian musician.

1892.- Josip Broz “Tito”, Yugoslav politician and soldier.

1901.- Gary Cooper, American actor.

1919.- Eva Duarte de Perón, former Argentinean lady.

1922.- Ignacio Fernández “Tony Leblanc”, Spanish actor.

1939.- Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician.

1951.- Bernat Soria, Spanish researcher.

1960.- Almudena Grandes, Spanish writer.

1987.- Chiara Ferragni, Italian blogger and influencer.

deaths

1986.- Gaston Deferre, French politician.

1992.- Pedro Gómez Valderrama, Colombian diplomat, politician and writer.

2011.- Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer, Prince of Asturias Award for Sports.

2016.- Fernando Álvarez de Miranda, Spanish politician, first president of the Congress of Deputies of democracy and Ombudsman.

2017.- Hugh Thomas, British historian and Hispanist.

Source: Elcomercio

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